cyclingmobility
- Tonucci: adults need to take a step back and give kids more free time. Teachers shouldn't give homework. I like this guy! #velocity201119 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Sloman: barriers are in our heads too. Power of positive thinking.#velocity201120 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Penalosa: 5yrs ago, closing Times Square would have seemed impossible and Seville had no bike lanes. Things can change!#velocity201121 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Tonucci recommends Dallas involves the media and focuses on marketing. #velocity201122 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Tonucci recommends Dallas creates school pilot scheme where kids within 1km walk to school. Start work winter, launch spring.#velocity201123 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Sloman recommends Dallas then removes 3% of car spaces each year for 15yrs. Follow Seville - change car lanes to cycle lanes#velocity201124 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Sloman recommends Dallas starts with car-free days and cycle festivals. Creating positive emotion towards car absence.#velocity201126 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Representatives from Dallas painting a bleak picture of the city.#velocity201127 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- @amsterdamized I believe the share varies wildly across the city and between London centre and Greater London. But point made - its a start!28 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® in reply to amsterdamized
- Tonucci: in Venice, kids don't fall into canals, regardless of lack of barriers. They look after themselves. #velocity201133 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Sloman: in the UK, we believed we couldn't generate cycling. Now, we believe we can, and the stats prove it. #velocity201134 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Penalosa not sure people love cars - rather, they love mobility. Sloman reveals half the population actually dislikes driving.#velocity201138 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Sloman: your mobile is now more of a status symbol than a car for teens. #velocity201140 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Sloman: culture change among mid-teens is important. Decline in young adults bothering to get a driving license. #velocity201141 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Sloman: Positive Pester Power means more adults with children are cycling than those without. #velocty201141 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Sloman: grass routes movement + infrastructure = virtuous circle. Need both! #velocity201142 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Sloman: cycling has more than doubled in 10yrs in LDN. Starting to become a cycling city. #velocity201143 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- @bicilibre I think it was a soundbyte for audience reaction! But efficiency is fact - objective - regardless of your choice - subjective44 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® in reply to bicilibre
- Tonucci: 650 cars per 1000 inhabitants in Italy, automotive industry prevents cities being child-friendly. #velocity2011about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Penalosa: we have lost the pedestrian habit in a single generation. People have walked for thousands of years. #velocity2011about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Tonucci finished speaking. Interesting views. Difficult for me to comment without being a parent! #velocity2011about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Tonucci: italian example, thousands of kids walking to school for 10yrs - 0 accidents. Those driven to school, 9 accidents#velocity2011about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Tonucci: children can look after themselves, in terms of walking or cycling to school. They are not stupid. #velocity2011about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Tonucci: proposes children aged 6+ walk to school without an adult or by walking bus. #velocity2011about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Tonucci: children need to make mistakes to learn to live by the rules. That isn't possible when always monitored by adults.#velocity2011about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Tonucci: a child who cannot walk or play suffers psychological harm. Today's cities prevent walking and playing. #velocity2011about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Tonucci, educational scientist and cartoonist "frato". #velocity2011about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- @bicilibre Surely in terms of distance and speed compared to energy use, cycling is more efficient? I don't have stats to hand though!about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® in reply to bicilibre
- Sloman: 69% of UK adults in 1979 agreed difficult not to drink and drive and have social life. By 1997 - 19%. #velocity2011about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Sloman: average 14% increase in proportion adults cycling in a typical week in UK cycling demonstration towns. #velocity2011about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Sloman: cycling demonstration towns in UK spent on average 79% of grants of infrastructure, 21% on behaviour change.#velocity2011about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Interesting reactions to yesterday's "cycling clothes" comments. Perhaps worth a mini-debate in the next issue! #velocity2011about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- @amsterdamized Drinking or cycling?!about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® in reply to amsterdamized
- Sloman: to generate more cyclists, overcome habit, social norms, objective + subjective realities. #velocity2011about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Sloman: average man spends total 1300hrs pa to go 16000km at average speed 12kph. Cheaper and just as fast by bike.#velocity2011about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Sloman, author of Car Sick and board member of Cycling England.#velocity2011about 2 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Penalosa: people are safer to ride a bike tipsy than to drive after a couple of drinks. #velocity2011about 2 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Penalosa: 61% of cyclists in copenhagen bike because it's fast and easy, not because of environment or health. #velocity2011about 2 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Penalosa: the grass always seems greener - cities need to stop making excuses and ACT to adapt streets for cycles. #velocity2011about 2 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Penalosa: women will use safe cycling infrastructure. #velocity2011about 2 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Lynn Sloman and Francesco Tonucci will be speaking at the opening plenary this morning. #velocity2011about 2 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
- Day two kickstarts! Gil Penalosa is so upbeat, i'd like to bottle it and sell it! #velocity2011about 2 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
